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Dissimilar packs share honors

A powder medication inhaler and unusual bags for an ice melter and for pet food earn recognition at DuPont's 12th awards competition.

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Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more

Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Technology breakthroughs on display.

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Supplier news: International agreements

Amplas (Green Bay, WI) has entered into a partnership with Toyo Jidoki (Tokyo, Japan) that makes Amplas the exclusive distributor of Toyo Jidoki's line of hi-tech pouch filling equipment.

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Supplier news: International agreements

American National Can Co. (Chicago, IL) and Danaflex Packaging Corp. (Wellington, New Zealand) have formed a joint venture to produce barrier and non-barrier flexible packaging for the food industry.

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Kraft matches cottage cheese and fruit

A thermoformed dual-compartment polystyrene container is being used by Kraft Foods for its new Cottage Doubles(TM) product. Available in refrigerated sections of supermarkets and Wal-Mart stores since June, Doubles are sold nationwide in three 5.5-oz varieties.

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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

DuPont (Wilmington, DE) has begun production of its Clysar® LLDPE shrink film at the company's LeTrait, France plant, making it DuPont's first PE-based shrink film line ouside of the U.S.

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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

UCB Films (Watford, Hertfordshire, U.K.) has opened a new Process Development Center for cellulose film at its Wigton, U.K., site.

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AET rejects Huntman proposal

Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. announced Aug. 14 that its Board of Directors had unanimously rejected the unsolicited and conditional proposal of Huntsman Packaging Corp.

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CMM to feature CtP technology

CMM International, produced and managed by Miller Freeman, Inc. (New York, NY), has announced a special Computer to Plate Technology Center to be unveiled at the 1999 event in Chicago, April 12-15.

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Eight O'Clock tests canisters in supermarkets

Montvale, NJ-based coffee marketer Eight O'Clock Coffee is testing a composite foil/paperboard canister in New York City supermarkets for two flavors of Great Coffees of the World.

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Innovations in plastics help foods flourish

Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.

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Biodegradable plastics

Under the trademark Mater-Bi, Novamont (Eschborn, Germany) currently produces four classes of biodegradable materials that can be processed with standard technologies such as injection molding, blow and cast film molding, as well as foamed sheets and cushioning for packaging.

August 31, 1998

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Technology to mold PU

Through video conferencing with R&D labs, Cannon S.p.A. (Trezzano, Italy) will introduce its latest polyurethane molding technology, including the use of liquid CO2 as a blowing agent.

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